A group of kids beat the summer heat on a trampoline in a front yard in Peoria, Ill.
Masked parade goers hold artwork by local stencil artist Peat Wollaegar during the People's Joy Parade on May 8, 2010 in St. Louis.
Elijah Mayfield runs out on the field with the Helias football team before the start of its game against Battle on Sept. 18 at Battle. Mayfield, who his father believes is the first student with Down syndrome to attend Helias for four years and earn a diploma, is a key contributor to Helias athletics as a manager.
Pastor Harvey Burnett of the New Bethel Church Of God In Christ, center, pleads with a large crowd that the deadly gun violence must stop during a cande light vigil for 21-year-old Eric D. Brown Jr. in Peoria, Ill. Brown was the city's seventh homicide of the year.
Horse racing trainer Ann-Charlotte Nielson brushes-off one of the many horses she exercises and cares for at the Jydsk Racecourse in Aarhus, Denmark.
From left, Mike Cosner, Loren Dallinger, Paul Tolley and Ken Krancher of the Pride of Peoria Quartet prepare to sing to the grave of Vicki Elward, the wife of former barbershop quartet singer Don Elward, on Thursday at Hirstein Cemetery in Morton, Ill. The barbershop quartet has sung at the grave for the past 10 years to pay tribute to Vicki.
Staci Gill changes her four-month-old son Xavier Gill's diaper in the family shelter on Monday, November 14, 2016 at the New Life Evangelistic Center in downtown St. Louis.
A reveler covered in pillow feathers catches her breath as hundreds of people gather for International Pillow Fight Day in Dam Square, Amersterdam in 2012.
Workers with Rosenbloom Monument Co. lift back up monuments on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, Missouri. As many as 200 headstones at the Jewish cemetery were toppled over the weekend.
Manual High School students Brianna Williams left, and Brittnay Curry, right, touch a pig heart before dissection on Wednesday as part of the Manual Science Enrichment Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, Ill. The program is part of a series of interactive classes put on by UICOMP medical students designed to promote careers and knowledge in science and medicine among Manual juniors and seniors.
The Hickman student section shine lights from their phones for dramatic effect as players are introduced at the start of the basketball game Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at Hickman High School in Columbia, Mo.
Missouri Rep. Crystal Quade, Democrat Minority Floor Leader, center, is consoled as she thanks a crowd of pro-choice advocates, not pictured, after the passage of HB 126, the "Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act" on Friday, May 16, 2019 at the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo.